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View all search resultsElephant cub born at Riau’s Tesso Nilo national park
The male calf is the sixth delivery for the 45-year-old Lisa, a tamed elephant.
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Lisa, a 45-year-old tame elephant, tends on Wednesday to her as-yet-unnamed male calf at Tesso Nilo National Park, Pelalawan regency, Riau. The calf is Lisa's sixth. (Courtesy of Tesso Nilo National Park/-)
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isa, a tame female elephant, gave birth to a male calf on Monday evening at the Elephant Flying Squad camp in Tesso Nilo National Park, Pelalawan regency, Riau.
Tesso Nilo National Park head Heru Sutmantoro said the birth was good news for efforts to conserve the Sumatran elephant (Elephas maximus sumatranus) in Riau.
“This is a good news for sustainability for the population of protected animals and those threatened with extinctions,” Heru said on Wednesday.
“The birth shows that efforts to maintain and take care of protected animals keeps yielding positive results.”
It was the sixth delivery for the 45-year-old elephant. The male calf was conceived from natural mating between Lisa and a wild elephant residing the national park.
Heru said the yet unnamed calf signaled the continuous elephant breeding process at the national park.
“The calf is the result of breeding between a tamed and wild elephant,” he said.
